patches to the main kernel tree?

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, Siim Põder wrote:

> Hi.
>
> I ran into trouble with LVS today (LVS+NAT) and thanks to 
> the list

it's in the HOWTO too.

> I found out there was a patch (LVS-NAT source routing 
> patch) that would make it all work out. Of course I can 
> add the patch (and propably will have to),

it's probably simplest to just apply Julian's nfct patches.

> but I was just curious wether there is an effort to merge 
> the patch to the main kernel tree (especially as there 
> doesn't seem to be any controversy with the patch)?

we're working on it. Horms is the main person fixing up the 
kernel and he does it only in his spare time.

There's a lot of undigested code around that the works for 
the authors. However the person submitting it to the kernel 
has to vouch for it. This means he has to understand the 
problem, understand what's fixed (and not fixed), understand 
the code, make sure the code has the correct style for the 
kernel, and *test* it. It's the difference between knowing 
how much you earned last year and submitting a tax form that 
won't result in a letter from the IRS. You don't want to 
submit code that any one of 100 people won't like for 
whatever reason.

So there's a bit of work between someone sending in a piece 
of code that works for them and code that goes in the 
kernel.

Joe

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